Patrizia Grifoni, affiliated with IRPPS, earned her degree in Electronic Engineering in 1990 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. A senior researcher, she has worked at the National Research Council since 1990. From 1993 to 2000, she was an adjunct professor of “Image Processing” at the University of Macerata. She is a professor of “Software Engineering and Object-Oriented Programming” at the International Telematic University Uninettuno. She is the author of over 250 articles in journals, books, and conferences. She has served as CNR scientific coordinator for numerous European and national projects.
She leads and participates in numerous national and international research projects. She has experience in organizing numerous international scientific conferences and seminars (RRI-SIS2017, MONET, MIMIC, M2AS, MAPS); she is a member of several program committees for international seminars and conferences and a member of the editorial board of several international journals. Her main research areas of interest are: Social informatics, Social computing, Human-computer interaction, Multimodal interaction, Sketch-based interfaces, Multimedia applications, User modeling, Databases and knowledge bases, Ontologies, Machine learning, Statistical databases, Territorial information, Geographic information systems, Responsible research and innovation, Ethics, Risk management, Digital ecosystems, Web applications, Web 2.0, Future Internet, Social networks.